Allen—Acute

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

Allen— Acute

FC. ALLEN, governing director of . the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company in New Zealand, is no tyro of tyre trouble. The displaying of a nice new set of balloons on your latest model , might well bring memories to Allen—recollection of small-bby days as a comparatively obscure digit on the hand of rubber possibilities; of transition

periods, when he graduated from one phase to another; from city to plantation: from the purchase of crude material in Eastern lands to testtubes and formulae in the laboratories of his principals. Akron, the United States sector where a man starts on rubber comforters and ends on. balloon tyres, cradled him through many a trying period of knowledge<*lonniner ■

His appointment in our own country as managing director indicates a wealth of experience in strict collaboration with personal worth. Sometimes, when we have unearthed our winter slippers and found our most mellow pipe, we think .• of the number of places one would like to have seen — and we remember that Allen has seen them all. The lucky beggar!